Hans Marius Wilhelm Løvaas
Hans Marius Wilhelm Løvaas (born February 25, 1848 in Bergen ; † September 5, 1890 in Jelsa near Suldal , Rogaland ) was a Norwegian landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Løvaas worked in a trading office and drew in his spare time before he got a place in the painting school of Johan Fredrik Eckersberg in Christiania in 1869 . The landscape painter Morten Müller taught him there . In 1872 he traveled to Düsseldorf , where he was Ludvig Munthe's private student until 1874 . During this time he went on study trips to different areas on the Rhine and to Holland . In 1876 he went to Paris , where he exhibited in the Salon for the first time in 1877 . In 1878 he returned to Norway and settled in Bergen. As an outdoor painter, he traveled the Romsdalsfjord from 1881 to 1884 .
literature
- Carl Wille Schnitler : Løvaas, Hans Marius Wilhelm . In: Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . Volume XVI (1924), p. 277 ( digitized version ).
- Johan Bøgh: Bergens Kunstforening i femti aar . Bergen 1888, pp. 109-110.
Web links
- Hans Marius Wilhelm Løvaas , entry in the portal nkl.snl.no ( Norsk Kunstnerleksikon )
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Løvaas, Hans Marius Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mountains |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 5, 1890 |
| Place of death | Jelsa near Suldal , Rogaland |